Poveda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: lived near a grove of poplars, OSp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pobɛda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poveda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.6K
- COColombia≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
lived near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective oi povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. L, populus, taken as a dim.). There are also sev¬ eral places named with this word, and they may have con¬ tributed to the surname. Poverelli see Power
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poveda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #298 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 10 | Poveda | 129 |
| ES Spain | #350 | 10,797 | 1 in 4.6K | 11K | Poveda | 148 |
| NI Nicaragua | #148 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Poveda | 32 |
| CR Costa Rica | #193 | 3,255 | 1 in 1.6K | 3.3K | Poveda | 52 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Poveda | 25 |
| PA Panama | #203 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 7 | Poveda | 37 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Poveda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective of povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. Lpopulus, taken as a dim.). There are also several places named with this word, and they may have contri¬ buted to the surname.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pedro Poveda Castroverdeb. 1874ESSpanish priest and saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1874–1936)
- Alfredo Povedab. 1926ECPresident of the Supreme Council of Government of Ecuador (1976 - 1979)
- Arcadio Povedab. 1930MXMexican astronomer (1930-)
- Francisco Rodríguezb. 1938PAnot in their usual namePresident of Panama
- Christian Povedab. 1955FRFrench journalist (1955–2009)
- Antoni Poveda Zapatab. 1955ESSpanish politician
- Miguel Povedab. 1973ESSpanish flamenco singer
- Marta Povedab. 1983ESSpanish actress
- Daniel Martínezb. 1996COnot in their usual nameColombian Road racing cyclist
- Darío Povedab. 1997ESSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #512 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11K | #512 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3.3K | #299 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 10 | #106 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 7 | #397 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #658 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Poveda come from?
- lived near a grove of poplars, OSp. poveda, a collective oi povo, pobo (white) poplar (LL popus, a back-formation from class. L, populus, taken as a dim.). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Poveda?
- A machine transcription gives /pobɛda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Poveda mean?
- Recorded meaning: lived near a grove of poplars, OSp.
- In which country does Poveda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Poveda in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poveda.
- How common is the name Poveda?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,797 people named Poveda, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Poveda compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Poveda is the 298th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/povedaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poveda” — the 298th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.